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2023ANNUAL REPORTConnecting & Deepening Our mission is to support youth with theknowledge and skills to mitigate and respond toclimate change and its constituent impacts,while building community resilience andstrengthening local food systems

THE YEAR2023 was about deepening relations and programming withschools, community partnerships and refining program areas.Since our beginning in 2020, we’ve been building relationshipsand connecting to already existing organizations that have beenleading the way towards a just and resilient future for all. We’vebeen nurturing and strengthening a network of schools, teachers,farmers and organizations that share in our mission to createopportunities for youth to engage with hands-on skill buildingrelated to creating a Just Transition for people and planet. This has led to internal professional developmentaround anti-racism/unlearning white supremacy andracism, strengthening our own inner resiliencethrough the lens of somatic embodiment andmindfulness learning, refining our program areas tomeet the needs/gaps of local front line communitiesthat include:, youth, farmers, BIPoC/sacrificedcommunities, people that experience food insecurity,teachers and schools. IN REVIEW

JUSTICE TREESWe planted an additional 600 trees in our FJG with thehelp of the TSA food justice elective and the HartfordArea Career and Technology Center, that includechestnuts, black walnuts and yellow bud hickories. The overlapping connections between theResilience Hub groups have supported thegrowth of the Food Justice Garden, the UpperValley Super Compost Project, RegenerationCorps and Emergence - who’s new coordinatorhas become a Lead Educator with the RC and willcontinue to manage the Food Justice Garden. The FJG has been a site for hosting RegenerationCorps electives through the Sharon Academy aswell as work parties for the Hartford Area Careerand Technology Center’s Natural Resource class. PROJECTSRESILIENCE HUBRegeneration Corps supports staff time and curriculumconnections to The Upper Valley Super CompostProject. The UVSCP is institutionalizing living compostsystems into 24 participating school outdoorclassrooms to empower communities to increase real-world problem-solving opportunities, enhance thehealth of schoolyards, school and community gardens,and save schools money!COMPOSTThe Regeneration Corps Collective meets bi-weeklyfrom 9 - 10 am with a goal of connecting the hyphae ofthe social mycelium of educators working to shift theparadigm of how education is delivered. We do thisbecause students and educators need to prepare forimmediate adaptation to climate change through a justtransition, centering those who are most deeplyaffected socially and environmentally, while creatingopportunities to collaborate, pool resources, and lifteach other up.MYCELIEUM MEETS

BY THENUMBERSCommunity Educational Sites forHands on Learning - 9Community Partnerships - 23 Mycelium Meets - 70+Number of Farm Hubs - 8Students - 549School visits - 87Schools - 11Tree Nurseries - 6Trees - 1,350REGENERATIONCORPS.ORG